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Anthony Hopkins Inspirational Quotes (143)

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I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.
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We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.
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I'm just an actor. It's the way the script is written, and it's easy. I don't have think about it. When you receive the script, you know pretty well how to play it, apart from little technicalities like the accent.
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It created in me a yearning for all that is wide and open and expansive. Something that will never allow me to fit in in my own country, with its narrow towns and narrow roads and narrow kindnesses and narrow reprimands.
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When people call me Sir Anthony I just think oh, that's a bit odd. But I'm not cynical about it. Um, I just feel more comfortable being called Tony or Mr. Hopkins, whatever name I'm called.
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When I direct I try to keep it a unique design of my own. Naturally you're influenced.
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I know how to be strong. I know how to be ruthless. It's part of my nature. I wouldn't be an actor if I wasn't.
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By giving up 'the need' and 'the want', things begin to happen for you
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There's a thing that if you - somebody in faith is always troubled by doubt, and somebody by doubt is always wanted by faith. So it's a kind of paradox.
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I'm having a great life. And I'm 73 and they still phone me up and ask me to do a job here and there.
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Things have changed so much now. Everything is downloaded onto computers. I'm not a computer-savvy guy, but with downloading the movie industry has changed.
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I love roller coasters. I don't get a chance often, but I've gone to Magic Mountain and gone on the rides. I love roller coasters.
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I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.
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Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.
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I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.
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You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?
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Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived... The pain now is part of the happiness then.
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I'll do anything to keep everyone laughing. Things get too intense on film sets. I remember on The Elephant Man, I used to imitate a cat without moving my lips. David Lynch would say, Cut! Sorry, we've got a noise somewhere on set. Everyone would be looking around for this cat.
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If you’re an alcoholic or a drug addict, we flirt with death. We pull ourselves to the brink of destruction and if we’re lucky we pull ourselves back. We all have that in us.
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A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
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How do you play Hannibal Lector? Well just don't move. Scare people by being still.
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My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.
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Ryan Gosling. He was a good kid, good actor. I like him very much. What was the name of the movie? I've forgotten it. Fracture.
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When I was a young guy, I knew everything. Now I know very little. I know less and less as the time goes on.
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